Sifting Through the Sands of Time from the Courier Archives

90 Years Ago May 23, 1919 2

Sunday as Pay Day

About the same kind of opposition to Sunday professional baseball that appeared in Buffalo, cropped out at Rochester when the new ordinance was submitted. About the same thing happened to the ordinance. It was passed. In commenting on the opposition. C. L. R. in Rochester Herald moralizes a bit as follows:

"Sunday baseball is the poor man's amusement, and the 'better' sort protest vigorously. If it is wicked for the poor man to attend a Sunday baseball game, it is wicked for the rich man to drive his car Sunday. If the 'better' people must keep Sunday a day of gloom, why should they not be logical and make the day just that for every man, rich and poor?

"The good pastors do not speak the word of God Sunday for nothing— they receive a salary. The ball player worth looking at also expects to receive a salary for playing Sunday.

"Minus money, both good preaching and good baseball would stop on Sunday.

"The church janitor works Sunday—for money. "The church choir works Sunday—for money. "Why all the rot about a commercialized Sunday?"

155 Years Ago 2 May 20, 1854

The Cuban Question

The relations between this country and Spain are gradually assuming a warlike aspect. Her Catholic Majesty refuses or neglects to make the reparation demanded by our government, for the repeated injuries which her agents at Havana have heaped upon American citizens and vessels; and to longer bear her flagrant insults would be degrading and mortifying oto the feelings of our people, and only deteriorate our national character in the eyes of the whole civilized world.

We hope our government will take early, active, and efficient steps in the matter. Our people are always prepared for war, and ready to meet any emergency, when they have justive on their side, and especially when it is forced upon us in vindication o our national honor.

The darling possession of her Majesty—the "Queen of the Antilles" which is by nature and should be a part of our Republic, and which we cannot acquire by purchase, will be an ample compensation for the trouble and expense of the war.